Nine Mile Corner, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Denmark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58746. The Survey maps it on the Bowbells SE quadrangle.

Nine Mile Corner within Ward County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1949 USGS Bowbells SE quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Bowbells quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Nine Mile Corner between 2005 and 2019, burning about 196 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2016	Natural	82 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	HB 10
15 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.4 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	HB12WILDFIRE2019
7 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	BREKHUS FIRE
17 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	KRINGSTAD
11 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	ESSLEN FIRE
10 May 2013	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	FELDMAN FIRE
3 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.6 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	HB-28 WILDFIRE 2107
28 April 2015	Debris and open burning	67 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	HB-12WILDFIRE

Every fire recorded in Ward County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kenmare	9.1 miles	8
Niobe	10.6 miles	8
Kenaston	13.1 miles	7
Baden	15.8 miles	7
Donnybrook	23.2 miles	7
Aurelia	25.5 miles	6
Hartland	31.5 miles	7
Carpio	32.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033783. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.